A Huge Big Thank you to Paul
Berridge who has made various profiles and photos availabe to me. They were
previously on his Beckindale site (that is no more). The following is one
of those profiles written in 2001. Subseqent news articles have been added.

Emmerdale is Verity's first major TV role.

Donna's Emmerdale history.

1993. Donna moved up from London with her parents, Vic and Viv,
step-sister Kelly and step-brother Scott.

1994.
The young girl was injured while being given a ride on an Emmerdale
tractor by Michael Feldmann. Her mum, Viv, threatened to sue. She was also
caught up in the plane crash in the village and had to be rescued from Kim
Tate's blazing stables. 1998. By now a teenager, Donna teamed up with
her thuggy mate Chelsea and decided to pick on Andy Hopwood, even ending
up in a fight. She was devestated when her dad died in the post office
robbery perpetrated by Andy's criminal dad, Billy, on Christmas Day.

1999.
Donna had been suspended from school for bullying Andy and his
foster-brother Robert Sugden. Her mum pleaded her case with the head and
she was let back in. 2000. The suspension shook Donna up a bit and she
made her peace with Andy, even helping to rescue him when he ran away. She
started her first proper relationship with Marc Reynolds.

Verity Rushworth, aka Emmerdale's dippy Donna,
reckons the soap has put her off going out on the town.

Next week viewers will see how she reacts
to news that she's contracted a sexually transmitted disease.

The 18-year-old actress explained to Pure
Soap: "Oh, I've had loads of really good storylines, but this
chlamydia storyline has been the most embarrassing.

"Although it's just touched upon in the show,
I'm dreading going out in Leeds, but it's all part of the job
I suppose."

The decision by the show's scriptwriters
to include the shocking plot, which could potentially see four
of the soap's characters suffering from the condition, couldn't
be more topical - recent figures revealed the number of children
under 15 visiting clinics for contraception and STD test has
nearly tripled over the past few years.

Only last year, The Family Planning Association
(FPA) called for the government to introduce a national screening
programme for chlamydia - the most commonly diagnosed STD in
2002 - to halt the growing crisis.

Next Wednesday (March 24), Viv discovers
her darling daughter Donna has contracted the STD, but what
will Robert do when he finds out, and will he fear the worst
about who the condition has spread to?

And, how long will it be before newlywed
Andy learns the truth?

Street star tried to pull me..and then MY
MUM; By VERITY from EMMERDALE.(News)

Sunday Mirror (London, England); 4/4/2004

EMMERDALE temptress Verity Rushworth
has revealed how a Coronation Street star tried to seduce her and
her mum.

The 18-year-old actress - Donna Windsor in the hit soap - is refusing
to name him, but admits she was shocked by his bold advances.

"I can't tell you who he was," she says. "He's on Coronation Street.
It was flattering at first, then it got very embarrassing as he
tried to pull my mother too.

"It's a bit odd being chatted up by someone who was also trying
to pull your mother. But my mum and I had a good laugh about it
afterwards."

But the mystery star would not have got very far with Verity or
her mother Fiona, however hard he tried.

Fiona, 43, is happily married to Verity's 56-year-old dad Michael,
a stonemason, and Verity has been seeing her model boyfriend Alex
Cooke, 18, for the past nine months. Verity says: "We see each
other a couple of times a week, mainly at the weekend.

"I don't want to get married for a long time. I've got too much
to do in my career and I'm only 18. We just enjoy going on dates,
to the cinema or for dinner. It's nice because we really look forward
to our dates instead of getting under each other's feet. We've
no plans for the future.

"He makes me laugh, he's a real gentleman, and he's very good-looking.
But he's only my second serious boyfriend and I've got lots of
other stuff going on in my life."